Rockwood Holdings Inc (ROC): Today's Featured Chemicals Winner

Rockwood Holdings was a winner within the chemicals industry, rising 62 cents (1.4%) to $43.70 on heavy volume.

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Rockwood Holdings ( ROC) pushed the Chemicals industry higher today making it today's featured chemicals winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.2%. By the end of trading, Rockwood Holdings rose 62 cents (1.4%) to $43.70 on heavy volume. Throughout the day, 1.7 million shares of Rockwood Holdings exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 840,300 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $43.15-$43.97 after having opened the day at $43.15 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $43.08. Other companies within the Chemicals industry that increased today were: Cereplast ( CERP), up 22.1%, Ferro ( FOE), up 5.2%, China Green Agriculture ( CGA), up 5.1%, and Gevo ( GEVO), up 4.1%.

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Rockwood Holdings, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets specialty chemicals and materials for industrial and commercial applications primarily in Germany, the United States, and Europe. Rockwood Holdings has a market cap of $3.36 billion and is part of the basic materials sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 8.1, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 10% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are three analysts that rate Rockwood Holdings a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and one rates it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Rockwood Holdings as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its notable return on equity, attractive valuation levels and expanding profit margins. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows weak operating cash flow.

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